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What does the head of Ofsted do?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the head of Ofsted do?

...system and not simply denigrate unions...[What does the head of Ofsted do cartoon, society matters] Ministers are thought to be looking to the US, Canada and northern Europe in their search for the next chief inspector of schools. With the current head of Ofsted, Michael Wilshaw, due to step down in December at the end of his term, secretary of state Nicky Morgan is...
Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing
History & The Arts

Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing

...think one of the jobs of a playwright is to listen to those and keep up to date with those. I think on the whole you instinctively listen to the different rhythms of the way that people speak. Some people do speak in a more kind of flowing, mellow kind of a way, and some people have a more kind of jerky way of expressing themselves and, but if you do find yourself getting...
Professor Andrew Watson - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Andrew Watson - Stories of Change

...thinking in terms of the previous episodes with climate sceptics, ideologically driven? AW: Nic Lewis is a little bit different to the climate sceptics that we often end by having dialogue with. He is prepared to put his ideas and his papers into peer-review and that means that instead of having an ideologically driven contest, which you can’t really get to any kind of...
Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...thinking about how you can encourage your workforce to flourish and thrive in this new hybrid world and what you can do to help them grow and feel secure. ...How does the hybrid world make you feel as a leader? Do you feel out of control? Do you trust your team and workforce to get the job done, or are you much more comfortable having them within your gaze in an office?...
David Allen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

David Allen - Earth in Vision

...think of at the time where I could get off the internet, and they were incredibly varied in what they have said and done over the twenty years, but they all have fantastic narrative. But if I’m thinking environment now, certainly Decade of Destruction was a very pertinent… I don’t know what it did in terms of the public, but in terms of our industry it was huge,...
Why the economy can't explain Trump or Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Why the economy can't explain Trump or Brexit

...system, but neither, says Eric Kaufmann, were driven by personal economic circumstances...[Nigel Farage addresses the US CPAC conference] Were Farage and Trump appealing to forces beyond the pocket book? For months, commentators have flocked to diagnose the ills that have supposedly propelled Trump’s support, from the Republican primaries until now. As in Britain, many...
Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...think are the core elements of the course's approach to social policy? Esther Saraga Yes I think the most important word that you've used John is approach, and that's the key thing to get hold of with D218, that it's about a particular way of studying social policy. So it isn't about learning lots of facts and figures or about a range of policies and procedures or the way...
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...Think of the computer example from the abuse dominance section, buying a computer also entails an operating system Microsoft Windows or Mac OS. Microsoft has been recently investigated for bundling: buying Office or Microsoft 365 included Teams, therefore taking advantage of their productivity packages popularity to increase its visibility. After the European Commission...